40 life-changing novels every woman should read

[altariel]

'The Independent' published a list of 40 life-changing novels every woman should read, based on a survey of 400 literati and the usual media suspects.

Jeanette Winterson is the most represented author; it's pleasing to see Hitchhikers and LotR make the list, although a shame there's not more feminist SF (The Handmaid's Tale is there, though). I'm glad to see A Little Princess rather than The Secret Garden. I have no idea why The Catcher in the Rye and The Corrections are there. Also I'm not sure why these are books every woman should read rather than just, you know, books.



The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen
The Rainbow, DH Lawrence
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Márquez
The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
Middlemarch, George Eliot
Catch 22, Joseph Heller
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
Villette, Charlotte Brontë
The Mill on the Floss, George Eliot
The Little Princess, Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing
Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
The Secret History, Donna Tartt
The Passion, Jeanette Winterson
The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
Ulysses, James Joyce
The Grass is Singing, Doris Lessing
Beloved, Toni Morrison
The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
The PowerBook, Jeanette Winterson
Persuasion, Jane Austen
The Stranger, Albert Camus
Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
Trumpet, Jackie Kay
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
Remembrance of Things Past, Marcel Proust
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf